DEMO: BibTeX output with citation-js

[zuphilip]

See also #16.

[rmzelle]

Thanks! Why did you label this as "DEMO"? Not ready for merging? (other than the fact that we'd need to update the on-page documentation and https://github.com/rmzelle/ref-extractor/blob/master/README.md)

It might be nicer to add an additional step after the file selection, and offer the user a drop-down menu of output formats (CSL-JSON, BibTeX, something like citation-apa, and, if Citation.js ever supports it, RIS). That way we'd only need one set of buttons.

We could also add a textarea (below or to the right) to show the extracted metadata in the selected format, which would the added benefit of giving user feedback when a different output format is selected in the dropdown menu.

(this dropdown menu would become the new step 3, and the button would move to step 4:

)

[zuphilip]

I named it DEMO because there are a lot of options how actually to do the integration. Besides from documentation etc. it should be ready to merge, maybe then as an intermediate solution. I like what you outlined with a new intermediate step to choose the format from, but I would leave this to you then to do. Also the textarea could be a nice idea.

Should I rename the PR? Can you take over from here?

[rmzelle]

Covered by #24.

It might be nicer to add an additional step after the file selection, and offer the user a drop-down menu of output formats (CSL-JSON, BibTeX, something like citation-apa, and, if Citation.js ever supports it, RIS).

For some reason I couldn't get a rendered format like "citation-apa" to work in citation.js 0.3.4 (see https://github.com/larsgw/citation.js/issues/142). And it looks like RIS support won't happen until 0.4: https://github.com/larsgw/citation.js/issues/125.

[larsgw]

Concerning RIS, I could create an intermediary beta release, or just a bundle created from the master branch. Do you have a preference?

[rmzelle]

Could you create a beta release? That might make it easier to track down bugs.

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[larsgw]

I'll add my replies from the other thread here too:

I released the v0.4.0-3 beta with RIS support, the CDN should load up soon:

• https://cdn.rawgit.com/larsgw/citation.js/archive/citation.js/citation-0.4.0-3.js
• https://cdn.rawgit.com/larsgw/citation.js/archive/citation.js/citation-0.4.0-3.min.js

(The CDN links work now)

Here's a demo on how to use the RIS output BTW: https://runkit.com/larsgw/citation.js-ris-output-demo

Basically this:

Cite(...).get({
  format: 'string',
  type: 'string',
  style: 'ris'
})

Or, with the new API:

Cite(...).format('ris')

Additionally, you can pass parameters:

Cite(...).format('ris', {
  type: 'text' // alternative: 'object' gives you an object representation
})